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Friday, September 16, 2011

"Peggy Olson" dress ... details. (Mad Men)

First of all, I want to apologize for my "disappearance" of this world blogger, life sometimes crosses the road and you have to give way to it. Now that everything is back to normal.... So I have made since last Sunday the dress that Peggy Olson, it appears in episode ten in the second season of Mad Men. Of course, with some changes to get me to be more comfortable and adapt it to my tastes and lifestyle needs... If you´ve read this blog for some time, remember that I told the "war" that gave the zipper... I guess I did not have a good day, so the third attempt, I gave it as valid, although you can see that the line of plaids has a few millimeters of deviation from the alignment of them, well... I can live with this, I guess...

If you have vintage sewing patterns once, you´ve probably seen this kind of sleeves on some clothes , this way of making the sleeves is currently unused, but in the 50s and 60s, this was quite usual, so I respected form, Also, I cut the seeves hem a bit, to ensure comfort that I need and can wear the dress in the climate that I live.

The dress has a fold at the front side that ends in a fold of ventilation, the buttons are sewn very well... because they are the bond between the fabrics of this fold, you can see that I stick my fingers between them, however, this fold is sewn inside... so there is no danger that a button "jump" and display unwanted areas of the body. Another thing, I smoothed the sides of the collar, they end up in peaks in the original dress, but this isn´t to my liking, so I made these rounder.

When I saw this dress for the first time in Mad Men and some pictures, one detail caught my attention immediately, plaids are discontinuous in the original dress.. You can see that they aren´t alinged as expected in a well-sewn dress.. I first thought maybe this was because it was impossible to align as many pieces of dress and plaids remain perfect in every game... However, you can see that my dress is fully alinged... so I´m clueless on this point... The only explanation I can think of is that the designer did this, intentionally to highlight the fold of the buttons.... And as a final point... Of course, my dress will be more baggy on me... I need to wear this dress in my daily life, including walking, sitting, working, driving, breathing (hey, this is important) and much more... basically be comfortable.. I envy so much the stylized figure of Peggy Olson in this dress... but this isn´t for me.... So soon will come photos that I wearing this dress....

43 comments:

Beautifully crafted. Your dress is much nicer than Peggy Olsen's. Not matching plaid or checks is something that drives me a bit crazy. To me, it is definitely a sign of a well made garmet when the patterns are matched. It takes more fabric and that is why so many fabrics are not matched. You are such an excellent seamstress, I envy your abilities!

Your dress is just perfect looking, so beautiful down to all the details - and yes, even though you didn't ask this question I have to agree with many other commenters that yours is a much better dress than Peggy's! Well done!

What a great dress and what a great sewing job. I love it and it looks wonderful on you.The gusset on the sleeves was featured recently in Threads magazine and I've been wanting to try it. You've inspired me to give it a shot.

Beautifully made, Rosy! Your dress is quite stunning! And yes, those mismatched plaids in the original dress would drive me insane, i just couldn't have them. I think maybe the error could be due to rushing to have the costumes ready for the show on time, and they hoped that people wouldn't notice...

Ahhh I miss Mad Men!! Can't wait for it to return.I re-watched season 4 and 5 over the last couple of weeks.I love this dress!!!!!! The details on it are amazing. I'll never get sick of revisiting Mad Men Challenge posts :D

I just saw this post in your side bar and had to have a little peek, being such a MM gal. I just want to say, first up, that you wear your dress so much better than Peggy does, I think it works better on a shapely figure than her very little girly one. Secondly, I have to say that I love how you matched up the plaid...I hate it when patterns don't align, especially bold ones. I know it uses more fabric, but it is so worth it. The buttons turn it from a simple sheath into a style wower, they really make it. I am going to have to peek at all your other copy dresses, they all look so fab. xx Shauna